Mahjong solitaire layouts
Match pairs of tiles to clear the board.
Every layout is played by the same rule: match two free tiles until the board is clear. What changes is how many tiles start free. The Turtle is the classic shape, with 35 free at the start. Seven is the most open, with 84 of its 144 tiles free, and Seven Pyramids the tightest, with only its seven peaks.
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Turtle
The classic shape: 144 tiles in five layers, with a head and a tail.
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Pyramid
Three square tiers, each stepped in from the one below.
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Fortress
A courtyard walled twice around, with a tile on every corner tower.
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Dragon
Heavy at the head and thinning away to the tail.
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Butterfly
Two spotted wings either side of a raised body.
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Spider
A stacked body with four legs reaching out each side.
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Bridge
A deck narrowing as it rises, carried by two pylons.
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Eight Stacks
Eight square towers four tiles high, each capped with one, with a loose tile above and below every column.
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The Great Wall
A flat wall of twelve by nine with nothing raised: every tile in plain sight.
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Seven
Seven tall columns two tiles wide, each with a few tiles lying across it.
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Seven Pyramids
Four large stepped pyramids on the corners and three small ones down the middle.
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Deep Well
Walls three tiles high stepping down to a hollow in the middle.
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Castle
A keep rising in four tiers inside its walls, with a tower on every corner.
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Small Portal
Rectangles nested one inside the next, each a step higher, around an opening in the middle.
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Hourglass
An hourglass lying on its side inside a wall of tiles.
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Scales of Justice
A beam on a post with a pan hanging from either end.
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Five Pyramids
A pyramid on each corner and a fifth in the middle, joined by a cross.
